Satirizing America The Purpose of Irony in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Satirizing America: The Purpose of Irony in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In 1884, Mark Twain published the sequel to his successful novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. With the sequel, Twain took a different approach rather than the comical, boyish tone of Tom Sawyer. He used it as an opportunity to exposes the problems he had seen with society using one of the most powerful methods available to a writer: irony. The technique gave Mark …

…contained serious issues Mark Twain saw in his time: the need for humanitarianism, the confrontation of racism, and the significance of religion or the lack thereof. Clearly concerned and unsatisfied with the condition of society, Mark Twain seamlessly knitted his own views into his work. Amusing yet serious, subtle yet powerful, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel that will hopefully be remembered for its literary articulateness and not for its misunderstood racial content.